Arsenic is seeping from a closed gold mine in the arctic north, and the Canadian Government’s solution is to freeze the mine forever.
Emerging Science Note/Nanorust
ARSENIC IN WOOD
Emerging Science Note/Nanorust
Rice and… Arsenic?
California Drinking
Water agencies in western states are hard-pressed to pay for removing arsenic from tap water to meet new federal standards. But California towns may soon have to meet an even stricter standard. Tamara Keith reports.
Don’t Drink the Water
You don’t have to go to a foreign country to find places where the water is undrinkable. Tamara Keith reports from a town in Central California where water is not only dirty and intermittent, but where the arsenic levels are a health threat.
Health Note: Spain Poisoning
Living on Earth’s Jessica Penney reports on a massive poisoning incident in Spain twenty years ago.
Since 2004, the water provided to more than 49 million Americans has contained illegal concentrations of chemicals and dangerous bacteria. Reporter Charles Duhigg tells us what to worry about and why violations weren’t caught sooner.
